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Bee 52
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Item Description
Somewhere between a side-scrolling shooter and a nature documentary sits Bee 52, Codemasters' gleefully odd NES game about a honeybee working an honest shift. The name is a wink at the B-52 bomber, and the game leans into the joke: your big-eyed bee is a tiny fighter craft, spitting projectiles from its sucker of a mouth and diving to sting anything that gets between it and the next flower.
The job sounds simple. Fly through each level visiting flowers, then head back to the hive after every three stops to add honey to the jar. Fill the jar and the level is done, though from the third stage on that means tracking down every flower tucked into the scenery. Twelve levels carry you from the backyard to a murky swamp and finally inside a house, with new pests along the way: ants, grasshoppers, dragonflies and snapping Venus flytraps. The A button fires straight ahead, the B button stings from above, and secret holes and a randomly appearing lightning bug hand out upgrades like a longer-reaching super stinger or stronger shots.
The cleverest touch is Junior, a little insect companion who orbits the bee once you find him and takes a hit in your place. Without Junior, a single touch costs a life and every weapon you've collected, so each trip back to the hive becomes a balancing act between greed and caution.
Bee 52 comes from the run of unlicensed NES games that British studio Codemasters made and Camerica distributed in North America, built outside Nintendo's approval process. It's an original idea rather than a knockoff of a bigger hit, and AllGame's Skyler Miller gave it high marks for both its creative premise and the strength of its execution. A Commodore 64 version was finished in 1993 but shelved by Codemasters, reaching players only when its programmer sold it himself by mail order, which makes the NES cartridge the one release that actually made it to store shelves. It's a small, inventive slice of the Camerica era with a premise nobody else attempted.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1992
- Publisher
- Camerica
- Developer
- Codemasters
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
You're about to find out just what's involved for a young bee with a day-job. Gigantic spiders, sneaky ants and loathsome slugs are just a few of the meanies who'll get in your way when you're bee number 52. You're hardly defenseless though, and with enough speed, skill and firepower you may get through the day - despite being heavily outnumbered. Let your nose, or rather proboscis, lead the way to the flowers and don't let anyone - or anything - get in your way! B52 - you're cleared for take off! Bee 52 is a side-scrolling video game published by Codemasters for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. A Commodore 64 version was completed in 1993, but was not published due to Codemasters withdrawing from the C64 market. After reaching an agreement with Codemasters, the programmer sold the game himself via mail order.
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